By Movieguide Contributor
A beautiful aspect of this moment in history is the emphasis on serving others and loving your neighbor. This can be seen through the movies that are coming out in the recent years, like HIDDEN FIGURES or REAGAN. We’re compiling some of our favorites for your enjoyment and to maybe find inspiration to help the people around you, too!
OVERCOMER is the heartwarming, often funny, poignant story of a teenage girl named Hannah who runs to Christ. Hannah lives with her grandmother in Franklin, Georgia. Hannah decides to try out for the high school cross-country team. Her coach, John Harrison, struggles…
Read the Full Review →BLUE MIRACLE is a wonderful drama on Netflix. Omar is on the brink of losing the beloved all-boys orphanage in Cabo, Mexico that he and his wife, Becca, run. He enters a fishing competition with a fisherman named Wade. Omar and Wade…
Read the Full Review →HIDDEN FIGURES is an engaging, uplifting salute to three African-American women who contribute to the NASA program during the 1960s Space Race with Russia. The story centers on Katherine Johnson. A brilliant mathematician, Katherine proves herself a critical addition to the Space…
Read the Full Review →UP, the fun-filled, exciting animated feature from Pixar and Disney, is about 78-year-old Carl, who decides to fulfill his wife’s lifelong dream to go to Paradise Falls in the remote Venezuelan jungle plateau when the government wants him to vacate his home.…
Read the Full Review →THE ULTIMATE GIFT opens when Red Stevens dies. His sons, daughter, and grandchildren are spoiled rotten. Their greed for Red’s billions of dollars is undisguised. When the grandfather’s lawyer, Ted Hamilton, reads the will, they are very annoyed because there are severe…
Read the Full Review →JESUS REVOLUTION is an accurate, compressed portrait of the hippies and Vietnam War protestors who find Jesus because God calls several Christians to tell them about Jesus Christ. The plot is propelled by a love story between an impoverished young man, Greg…
Read the Full Review →Note: A special one-day premiere screening will take place June 19 in 1200 theaters before the movie’s July 4 release in theaters. SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT tells a heartwarming story. Donna Martin is grieving after her mother’s unexpected…
Read the Full Review →REAGAN stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. It covers Reagan’s life from his childhood to his death. There’s a strong focus throughout the movie on Reagan’s lifelong fight against communism. The movie relates Reagan’s battle…
Read the Full Review →CHUPA is a delightful, animated fantasy on Netflix. It follows the adventures of a Mexican boy from Kansas, Alejandro, who meets a young Chupacabra on summer vacation in Mexico with his grandfather and his two cousins. Alejandro decides to try and return…
Read the Full Review →LETTERS TO GOD is an entertaining, heart-rending, and inspiring story about a boy with cancer. Tyler has an indomitable spirit. He tries to do what Jesus would do, although he has innumerable brain tumors and is going through chemotherapy. His father died…
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